SpiderTerm Lecture 1

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Lab 2

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There weren't many lecture notes for this week. There are two resources I mentioned.

1. Jed's program is called segfault.c, it's in ~ajdavis/cs1000/lab2.

2. The gdb manual can be invoked with 'info gdb' on the linux machines. However, this will put you in one of those oh-so-intuitive text interfaces Richard Stallman is famous for. Yes, if you spent half an hour learning the interface with 'info info', you could be a whiz at reading basic documentation and it could conceivably save you more than half an hour over the next few years. On the other hand, RMS has been using Emacs longer than anyone, and for a while he was so incapacitated by carpal tunnel syndrome that he had to pay grad students to take code dictations, so perhaps his UI design skills aren't the best....

Therefore, I recommend 'gnome-help-browser info:gdb &'. Reading the sample session is a particularly good jump start.